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Come Fan with UsWednesday, August 5, 2026

Stammering Explanations, David Kahn Edition

Unedited from the Minnesota Star-Tribune, here is David Kahn’s explanation of the decision to draft Ricky Rubio:

↵↵I feel like, the way this played out this summer, it became even more apparent to me that his value, because of what he has already accomplished as a professional, and the way he plays and the buzz around him, will mean that the value that he has will hold, and that however we choose to exploit the value — meaning whether he’s in our uniform or somebody else’s uniform, and I really hope he’s in our uniform, by the way, but I also have to acknowledge that I don’t know what will happen over the next couple of years — but clearly at that position, there wasn’t anybody else we could have taken that could have helped us for the future of this franchise like he could have, whether he’s here or elsewhere, and so I think you can make an argument down the road — I’m the first to say that five, seven years from now, we may be able to go back and look at the draft and clearly point out that it was the wrong thing to do.

↵↵Yup. That’s all one sentence.

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